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by mv1 7y ago
This is a trademark issue and I believe laws vary by country. No idea how to quantify the risk though.
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The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Environment(thebreakthrough.org)
2 points by mv1 7y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 7y ago
I think the problem is that building any new abstractions is a pretty big lift today, and so innovation is slow moving. Something like this can make that innovation easier, eventually giving way to some simple YAML files. Unfortunately, it
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Infrastructure as Code, Not Infrastructure as Files(hackernoon.com)
19 points by mv1 7y ago|6 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
Umm, the correct answer is to switch doors. It has been discussed ad naseum as you mention. The simplest way to see that the switch doors gives you a 2/3's chance of winning is as follows. Without loss of generality, assume that you alway
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by mv1 15y ago
I love this comment: "The reason why we put it in is not physical data loss, but once in a blue moon you will have a bug that destroys all copies of the online data and your only protection is to have something that is not connected to the
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by mv1 15y ago
The purpose of double blind review is not to anonymize the work of well known authors - conferences, informal conversations, etc. guarantee that the work of established members of the community will be known, even before Google. What double
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by mv1 15y ago
A "fun" exercise in C++ is to take a line of code that makes extensive use of advanced features, like templates, smart pointers, etc. and step through a -O0 compile with gdb. I was shocked, in some cases, about how many different functions
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by mv1 15y ago
Historically, publishers provided at least two valuable services: distribution and marketing. They captured the value they were providing by "taxing" distribution (i.e., adding a profit margin for themselves). ebooks make distribution che
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by mv1 15y ago
I like Richard Hamming's quote which is something as follows: "What you do is luck, that you do something is not." (something is referring to great work in this context).
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Revealed - Full list of Intellectual Ventures investors(iam-magazine.com)
2 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
One other thing to consider, besides the rational aspects to equity assignment, is fairness. People will talk about their equity allocation sooner or later and if there is a major differential between people who perceive themselves as simi
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Now too little salt is bad for you(economist.com)
1 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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Why one building remained standing after Japan quake(online.wsj.com)
7 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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Major Changes at Cisco(marketwire.com)
1 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
The article likens the building of a skyscraper to the design of software. I think that the analogy here may be wrong (having made the same incorrect analogy myself). Perhaps the correct analogy is that the building of a skyscraper is ak
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Information Economics - It is still early in the game.(lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
2 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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How to do memorable work (1986 talk by Richard Hamming)(cs.virginia.edu)
1 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
I would add to the list "It is too frustrating". I've contributed to several open source projects in the past (Linux kernel, gnome, etc.), but doing so is hard work, even if the changes are trivial and you don't have a reputation in the com
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by mv1 15y ago
Perhaps I just have a skewed sample set then.
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by mv1 15y ago
I've come down to a rule for wine - price correlates well with value in the $15-$25 per bottle range, you get what you pay for. Outside of that it seems random. Two-Buck chuck is pretty good, especially for $2. I've also had expensive wi
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by mv1 15y ago
There seems to be a lot of mythology around the ascetic entrepreneur. My experience is that many founders begin startups from a place of financial strength. They either made money as employees of other startups before starting their own (
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Yahoo pays $20MM for a 3 month old company(businessinsider.com)
2 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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VC Mark Suster's Advice on Growing a Services Business(bothsidesofthetable.com)
1 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
I find it sad that, to this day, one has to spend so much time worrying about memory management to get decent performance. I've yet to work on a performance oriented project where I didn't need to write at least a couple custom allocators
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by mv1 15y ago
I call this "poke it with a stick" debugging. Let's poke the code like this and see if it works now. This approach is so wrong yet so common it's infuriating.
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Breakdown of Where Your Tax Dollars Went(wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com)
2 points by mv1 15y ago|0 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
I think this last point is a really good one and is something that people who haven't been on the selling side don't really appreciate - it is often difficult to decide what to charge for and how much since different customers derive differ
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How to Price Software - Economics vs. Pyschology(joelonsoftware.com)
50 points by mv1 15y ago|6 comments
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by mv1 15y ago
I wouldn't say they capture all the value, they return a huge chunk of it to customers, often through lower prices. But, I agree that shrinking a $20B market to a $2B market where you control $1B in revenues at much lower costs allows you

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